Iran demands $1 trillion usd from Iraq

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Iran demands $1 trillion in compensation from Iraq- Iranian lawmaker

December 19, 2009 - 03:16:44

BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Iran demands $1 trillion U.S. dollars incompensation from Iraq for the damage done to the country during theGulf war, the Iranian Mehr News Agency (MNA) quoted an Iranianlawmaker as saying.

“According to UN estimates, the Islamic Republic of Iran demands $1trillion U.S. dollars in compensation from Iraq in compensation forthe damage caused by the war,” said the head of the foreign relationscommittee in the Iranian Shura Council, Hassan Ibrahimi, according toMNA.In response to what the Iranian news agency described as “allegationsof the Iranian seizure of an oil well in Iraq,” Ibrahimi said that hiscountry “will never have a dispute with Iraq.”

“The issue will be resolved by means of diplomatic dialogue,” he added.The Iranian ambassador to Baghdad, Hassan Kazemi Qomi, had deniedreports that Iranian soldiers seized an oil well in Missan.During an emergency meeting on Friday (Dec. 18), Iraq’s NationalSecurity Council considered an Iranian force’s incursion into anoilfield as “violation of the country’s sovereignty,” demanding “theimmediate withdrawal and removal of the Iranian flag from the welltower in the field,” according to the Iraqi government’s officialspokesman.The spokesperson said 11 Iranian soldiers had taken control of theFakka oilfield in a remote desert area of southeastern Iraq, in a“violation of Iraqi sovereignty.”Iraq demanded an immediate withdrawal from well No. 4 and the Fakkaoilfield, saying it was looking for a peaceful and diplomaticsettlement to the issue.

Iraqi officials said the Iranian soldiers crossed into Iraqi territoryon Friday and raised the Iranian flag at Fakka, whose ownership isdisputed by Iran.